Jonathan O’Callaghan

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    How Maxwell’s Demon Continues to Startle Scientists

    Reprinted with permission from Quanta Magazine’s Abstractions blog. Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . The universe bets on disorder. Imagine, for example, dropping a thimbleful of red dye into a swimming pool. All of those dye molecules are going to slowly spread throughout the water.Physicists quantify this tendency to […]